Example sentences of "of [adv] 10 [unc] cent " in BNC.

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1 In this case , if the artist receives a 12 per cent royalty , and the producer requires a 2 per cent royalty on record sales , the artist is left with a royalty of only 10 per cent split between the members of the band .
2 But the family sizes of women married in 1945 and in 1954 after 10 years ' marriage were 1.79 and 1.96 children respectively — a difference of only 10 per cent .
3 In power since 1971 , he is a remarkable survivor among Arab leaders , the more so for being an Alawi — one of only 10 per cent of the Syrian population .
4 Based on figures calculated for the united Yemen throughout 1990 , the budget forecast a deficit reduction of some 27 per cent during 1991 , with a 43 per cent increase in revenue and an increase in expenditure of only 10 per cent .
5 Many are bronze mirrors with a normal tin content of approximately 10 per cent , which have been tinned to produce a silvery reflecting surface .
6 Drink sales averaged £180,000 per unit , showing an increase of approximately 10 per cent over the period .
7 The UNP — led by Chung Ju Yung , the founder of the Hyundai group , the country 's second-largest industrial conglomerate — secured 31 seats ( 24 in direct voting and seven in the national constituency ) after a vigorous , centrist , pro-business campaign , which attacked the economic record of the Roh government , and in particular its inability to reduce inflation , currently running at an annualized rate of approximately 10 per cent .
8 According to John Charcol , the mortgage broker , one or two schemes are still available , offering mortgages at a fixed rate of under 10 per cent .
9 It 's a far cry from the plight of the 1988 borrower , who took out a loan at a rate of under 10 per cent .
10 In this context Japan 's overwhelming dependence on imported oil set off the most severe economic recession since World War II and GNP actually fell by 1 per cent in 1974 after growing at an average rate of nearly 10 per cent in the previous six years .
11 The new company , which will be called Chiron , will have 1500 employees , although a reduction of about 10 per cent of the workforce is expected early in 1992 .
12 Experiments to test QCD give results with an error of about 10 per cent .
13 Ditton worked in the bakery over vacations for a few years and reckoned that each man had an illegal income of about 10 per cent of his bread sales , very little of which appeared as a loss in the firm 's financial records .
14 The prototype reproduces readings with an accuracy of about 10 per cent — on par with most petrol gauges .
15 Lead miners in the northern Pennines were earning 10s ( 50p ) a week by 1797 and 11s 6d ( 57½p ) by 1815 , whereas before the war they had been earning 7s 6d ( 37½p ) ; a money-wage increase of around 50 per cent over the war years seems indicated , implying a real-wage fall of about 10 per cent .
16 John Perry , chief executive of Unisys UK , added that the British subsidiary made a profit of around 10 per cent , in spite of the adverse economic climate .
17 Izvestiya of March 12 reported that officials were predicting a budget deficit in the first quarter of around 10 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) against the government 's target of 1 per cent .
18 The aspirin and paracetamol market was worth £148 million — a healthy increase of almost 10 per cent on 1990 , said the market research group Datamonitor .
19 However , the process is by no means uniform and Table 5.3 shows that a small number of towns in the rural districts actually lost population between 1971 and 1981 , although the dominant trend was increases of over 10 per cent in both of the rural categories at the foot of the table .
20 As compared with regional showings in the GDR general election on March 13 , 1990 [ see pp. 37300-03 ] , the CDU share of the vote overall went up , due to an increase of over 10 per cent in support in Saxony ( where support for the DSU , however , dropped by a corresponding amount ) .
21 But the north of England , Yorkshire and Humberside fared significantly worse with increases in the number of business failures of over 10 per cent .
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